Research Themes – An Annotated Subject Directory to the LLL Social Economy Research Projects
Last Updated on May 3rd, 2013
As the research in the Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan Node of the Canadian Social Economy Suite evolved, several sub-themes emerged.
Below you will find an annotated directory to all of our social economy research projects categorized by themes.
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Click on any of the project titles below to find more information about the research, including summaries, findings, posters, associated publications, and more.
Child Care
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Co-operatives and Credit Unions
- Adult Education and the Social Economy: Re-thinking the Communitarian Pedagogy of Watson Thomson (2010) Michael Chartier (CL5-11) | Final Report (pdf)
- In 1944, Watson Thomson, a Scottish-born educator, organized and directed a Saskatchewan-wide adult education division. The program attempted to facilitate the formation of a network of co-operative enterprises aimed at the cultural, social and economic development of the Canadian Prairies. Perhaps the reclamation of Thomson’s educational framework can provide effective methodological consideration for contemporary adult education.
- Community Conversations about the Good Food Junction Co-operative (2012) Emily Hurd (CL5-20-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- The primary goal of this project was to provide CHEP, the Good Food Junction Co-operative board, and the Station 20 West Development Corporation board of directors with insight on where Core community members were shopping and present and to ascertain the likelihood of them making the switch to the Good Food Junction Co-operative grocery store.
- Co-operative Marketing Options for Organic Agriculture (2009) Jason Heit and Michael Gertler (CL1-22) Final Report (pdf)
- The report from this project profiles and analyzes some of the co-operative marketing enterprises that organic field crop producers in Saskatchewan have developed over the past thirty years. It discusses potential enterprise models for producer groups wanting to develop co-operative or producer-owned firms for marketing organic field crops. The report also provides recommendations for organic producers wanting to develop new or existing co-operative marketing enterprises.
- An Economic Analysis of Microcredit Lending (2011) Haotao Wu (CL2-03) | Final Report (pdf)
- This study explores a number of the issues around the provision of micro-loans by credit unions and the agencies with which they work. It also examines the advantages and disadvantages of investor-owned firm such as chartered banks versus credit unions in providing microcredit.
- The Management of Co-operatives: Developing a Postsecondary Course (2011) Leezann Freed-Lobchuk, Vera Goussaert, Michal Benarroch, Monica Juarez Adler (CL1-27-MB) | Final Report (pdf)
- This research presents a course outline, syllabus, and reading package for a course in the Management of Co-operatives for the University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Business and Economics. The course was offered for the first time at the University of Winnipeg in January 2011.
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Education
- The Management of Co-operatives: Developing a Postsecondary Course (2011) Leezann Freed-Lobchuk, Vera Goussaert, Michal Benarroch, Monica Juarez Adler (CL1-27-MB) | Final Report (pdf)
- This research presents a course outline, syllabus, and reading package for a course in the Management of Co-operatives for the University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Business and Economics. The course was offered for the first time at the University of Winnipeg in January 2011.
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Financing (Cluster 2)
- Financing Social Enterprise: An Enterprise Perspective (2008) Phase II of a report by Wanda Wuttunee, Martin Chicilo, Russ Rothney, and Lois Gray (CL2-02)| Final Report – Phase 2 (pdf)
- This paper focuses on financing from the social enterprise perspective, including a discussion of the financing strategies as they change throughout the life of the enterprise. Case studies profile four social enterprises operating in the city of Winnipeg, highlighting key elements in their history and strategies.
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Food Security
- Community-Based Regional Food Distribution Initiatives: A Cross-Case Analysis (2012) Colin Ray Anderson and Stéphane Marc McLachlan (CL1-24-MB) |Final Report (pdf)
- Community-based food distribution initiatives are difficult yet rewarding. In this study we explored the strategies used by CRFIs in their efforts to upscale both the social and economic impact of localized alternative food networks. The research involved interviews, video documentation, site visits and four comparative case studies.
- Community Conversations about the Good Food Junction Co-operative (2012) Emily Hurd (CL5-20-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- The primary goal of this project was to provide CHEP, the Good Food Junction Co-operative board, and the Station 20 West Development Corporation board of directors with insight on where Core community members were shopping and present and to ascertain the likelihood of them making the switch to the Good Food Junction Co-operative grocery store.
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Governance (Cluster 3)
- Collaborative Governance Model Initiatives (CL3-05-SK)
- The objective of this study is to identify key factors that contribute to the success of social economy organizations that have successfully used collaborative governance models, particularly when it comes to funding issues.
- Community-Based Planning: Engagement, Collaboration and Meaningful Participation in the Creation of Neighbourhood Plans (2010) Karin Kliewer (CL3-07-MB) | Final Report (pdf)
- This resource guide addresses the need for increased resources, analyses, and approaches in the creation of neighbourhood plans and guides diverse community groups in ways that encourages collaboration and engagement on both small and large scales.
- Self-Determination in Action: The Entrepreneurship of the Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association Co-operative (2010) Dwayne Pattison and Isobel M. Findlay (CL3-01-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- This project explores and makes recommendations regarding collaborative governance models, organizational communications, transparency and accountability, and the integration of traditional trapper values and worldviews.
- Toolkit for Empowering Practices in Social Economy Governance and Planning (CL3-02)
- This project resulted in a website of downloadable resources for use in organization training. It provides research and specific models that achieve participation/inclusion/sense of community ownership, tools for standards of good governance, and information for practical board training, board management, and board-staff relations.
- Understanding and Promoting Effective Partnerships for CED: A Case Study of SEED Winnipeg’s Partnerships (2011) Gaelene Askeland and Kirit Patel (CL3-06-MB) | Final Report (pdf)
- The results of this research report may be helpful to a variety of organizations that are considering entering into a partnership or assessing the partnerships they currently have. This research shows that success results from good planning, appropriate due diligence prior to engaging in partnerships, making good choices in partners, and putting in the effort and resources required to make the relationships work well.
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Health Care
- Mapping Health Disparity: The Role of the Social Economy in Duck Lake (CL1-26-SK)
- The goal of this project is to improve access to health services in the Duck Lake area and understand barriers and disparities between groups accessing health care within the Duck Lake school division boundary (town, rural municipality, and reserve). It will also explore the opportunities that the social economy can create for improving the quality of life of people living in this area.
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Housing
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Indigenous Communities
- Anishinaabek Communities of the Boreal and the Impacts of Roads: Paving the way Towards a Social Economy? (CL5-12)
- This research project will involve looking at long-term changes to land use by members of 2-3 Anishinabek communities of the boreal forest of eastern Manitoba and Northwest Ontario, especially as it pertains to the access to the community by year-round roads, or lack thereof. The outcomes will be used to further critique and evaluate stated governmental policies in this region, with an eye on cultural continuity and long-term health and social well-being of the communities with whom research shall be conducted.
- Community Resilience, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Case of the Social Economy in La Ronge (2011) Kimberly Brown, Isobel M. Findlay, and Robert Dobrohoczki (CL4-03-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- This case study on the social economy in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Ronge has three key objectives: to identify social economy actors in La Ronge; to document the economic, social, and cultural contributions of the social economy to the community; and to highlight the opportunities and challenges facing the social economy in La Ronge.
- Evaluation of Saskatoon Urban Aboriginal Strategy (2008) Cara Spence and Isobel M. Findlay (CL1-23-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- In consideration of the UAS mandate to identify local needs of Aboriginal people and to develop innovative ways to address these needs, this research evaluates whether the UAS project was managed and delivered as it was designed; in turn, meeting the needs of the people it was intended to serve.
- Financing Aboriginal Enterprise Development: The Potential of Using Co-operative Models (2009) Lou Hammond Ketilson and Kimberly Brown (CL2-04) | Final Report (pdf)
- This report examines the process, challenges, and benefits of setting up Aboriginal credit unions.
- Garden River First Nation Performance of Hiawatha (CL1-04-NO)
- This project provided youth with training in writing, acting, and producing community arts events and developed youth knowledge of Anishinaabe history and mythology.
- Indigenous Women’s Identity and Work in Canada and United States, 1624-2006 (CL1-08-NO)
- This project raises and celebrates the profiles of indigenous women involved in community economic and business development.
- Investing in the Successful Reintegration of Aboriginal Peoples Returning from Incarceration in Federal, Provincial, and Youth Institutions (CL1-19-SK)
- This study provides a literature review and environmental scan of existing programs and support for those returning from incarceration in federal, provincial, and youth institutions. The research intends to recommend initiatives and new programs and services to fill gaps.
- Ken MacDougall: The Enjoyment of Form (CL5-24-NO)
- This project resulted in a documentary that explores the contributions of local artist Ken McDougall, who brought together a community of artists, community activists, businesses and local institutions to celebrate the contribution of art to building a shared Northern identity.
- Knowing Traditional Territory: An Inter-Generational Dialogue for Community Research (CL1-10-NO)
- In the spirit of oral tradition, an audio documentary will be produced by community youth and others who will interview elders, adults, and their peers concerning the importance of traditional territory for economic and social well-being.
- Lessons Learned on the Justice Trapline (CL5-18-SK)
- The purpose of this project is to conduct research across Canada and other jurisdictions on the lessons learned about placing Aboriginal people awaiting trial on thetrap lines. The study will focus on convicted people with disabilities, and convicted youth offenders. Lessons learned from other places will support efforts to develop a program that would suit the Northern Aboriginal people.
- Mapping Health Disparity: The Role of the Social Economy in Duck Lake (CL1-26-SK)
- The goal of this project is to improve access to health services in the Duck Lake area and understand barriers and disparities between groups accessing health care within the Duck Lake school division boundary (town, rural municipality, and reserve). It will also explore the opportunities that the social economy can create for improving the quality of life of people living in this area.
- Mapping the Nature and Extent of the Social Economy in Aboriginal Communities (CL4-12)
- This project intends to document the types of social economy organizations in Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
- Mining and the Social Economy in Baker Lake, Nunavut (2011) Warren Bernauer (CL5-22) | Final Report (pdf)
- This research assesses the relevance of the social economy to Baker Lake residents and the role that mining plays in the contemporary social economy of the community. Recommendations are made for resource development in the area based on the impact of mining on the residents.
- Sharing our gifts: The Story of Ohpahow Wawesecikiwak Arts Marketing Co-operative Limited (CL1-20-SK)
- The resulting report documents the ways in which the Arts Marketing Co-op is responding to the need of its community to establish business enterprises to create income and build capacity among its artisans.
- Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee: A Case Study in Respectful Relations, Anti-Racism, and Solidarity in the Social Economy (CL4-17-NO)
- This case study will explore how an anti-racism committee has developed and grown over the past 20 years, building relationships across cultures and within the community itself. It looks at the experiences of Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee in order to better understand the process of building respectful relations in the social economy.
- South Bay Park Rangers Employment Project For Persons Living with a Disability: A Case Study in Individual Empowerment and Community Interdependence (2009) Isobel M. Findlay, Julia Bidonde, Maria Basualdo, and Alyssa McMurtry (CL5-15-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- This case study tells the story of the South Bay Park Rangers employment program for people with disabilities in the Northern Saskatchewan Village of Île-à-la-Crosse. This report discusses the situation in Canada for people with disabilities, issues facing Aboriginal people with disabilities, and particular issues in the North. The report aims to help people understand the impacts of the Park Rangers program on the people involved, their families, caregivers, and their community. It also suggests ways to build on the program’s strengths to make it more effective and a model for other communities.
- Subverting the Global Food Economy Status-Quo: The Intrinsic Relationship of Regionalized Ethics to the Practice and Discourse of Food Sovereignty (CL1-32)
- Two reports have been produced for this project. One is a literature review pertaining to Aboriginal articulations of traditional ecological knowledge and the role of intergenerational knowledge transmission. The second report will provide a case study of how a partnership program between Skownan Anishinaabek First Nation and Career Trek (Non-profit organization) has resulted in the production of a regional cookbook, of which all profits are filtered back into community educational programming.
- Through the Eyes of Women: What a Co-operative Can Mean in Supporting Women During Confinement and Integration (2013) Isobel M. Findlay, James Popham, Patrick Ince, Sarah Takahashi (CL1-31-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- This study explores how participation in a co-operative can impact the capacity of provincially sentenced women to negotiate incarceration and successfully reintegrate into the community upon release from custody.
- Urban Aboriginal Strategy Funding Database (2008) Karen Lynch, Cara Spence, and Isobel M. Findlay (CL1-14-SK) Final Report (pdf)
- The data collected during this project informs the amount of funding and granting resources that are available for organizations who deliver programming for Aboriginal people living in Saskatoon. The funding database has the potential to become an important tool for community-based organizations and policy makers to direct change in Saskatoon.
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Inner City and Ethnocultural Communities
- Community Conversations about the Good Food Junction Co-operative (2012) Emily Hurd (CL5-20-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- The primary goal of this project was to provide CHEP, the Good Food Junction Co-operative board, and the Station 20 West Development Corporation board of directors with insight on where Core community members were shopping and present and to ascertain the likelihood of them making the switch to the Good Food Junction Co-operative grocery store.
- A Global Market in the Heart of Winnipeg: Measuring and Mapping the Social and Cultural Development of Food in the Central Market for Global Families (CL1-28-MB)
- Central Market is a multi-ethnic market open to all who enjoy shopping or selling in an open air market with culturally unique foods, listening to live and traditional music from various cultures, watching live entertainment, meeting new friends, and supporting the creation of safer, healthier neighbourhoods. The goal of this research project is to examine the design, operation, and maintenance of the Central Market and to document the experiences of the neighbourhood members and larger Winnipeg community.
- Growing Pains: Social Enterprise in Saskatoon’s Core Neighbourhoods (2008) Mitch Diamantopoulos and Isobel M. Findlay (CL4-04-SK) Final Report (pdf)
- Over the last decade, unique community economic development and social enterprise innovations in Saskatoon’s core neighbourhoods have provided some compelling new directions and possibilities for building stronger, more inclusive, and more prosperous communities. Although many challenges, obstacles, and disappointments emerged in our dialogue on the community-led redevelopment of the Core, these conversations also tell a story of compelling achievements and of promising opportunities to build on new foundations.
- Initiatives, pratiques et appuis au développement économique communautaire: la participation de l’économie sociale dans la construction des capacities des communautés francophones: Nord de l’Ontario, Manitoba et Saskatchewan (Community Economic Development Initiatives, Practices and Supports: How the Social Economy Contributes to Francophone Communities in Northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan) (CL4-01-NO)
- Our goal is to report on the state of the social economy among Francophones in three provinces – Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan – as well as identify regional differences and similarities.
- Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee: A Case Study in Respectful Relations, Anti-Racism, and Solidarity in the Social Economy (CL4-17-NO)
- This case study will explore how an anti-racism committee has developed and grown over the past 20 years, building relationships across cultures and within the community itself. It looks at the experiences of Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee in order to better understand the process of building respectful relations in the social economy.
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Justice and Prisons
- Lessons Learned on the Justice Trapline (CL5-18-SK)
- The purpose of this project will be to conduct research across Canada and other jurisdictions on the lessons learned about placing Aboriginal people awaiting trial on thetrap lines. The study will focus on convicted people with disabilities, and convicted youth offenders. Lessons learned from other places will support efforts to develop a program that would suit the Northern Aboriginal people.
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Labour
- South Bay Park Rangers Employment Project For Persons Living with a Disability: A Case Study in Individual Empowerment and Community Interdependence 2009) Isobel M. Findlay, Julia Bidonde, Maria Basualdo, and Alyssa McMurtry (CL5-15-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- This case study tells the story of the South Bay Park Rangers employment program for people with disabilities in the Northern Saskatchewan Village of Île-à-la-Crosse. This report discusses the situation in Canada for people with disabilities, issues facing Aboriginal people with disabilities, and particular issues in the North. The report aims to help people understand the impacts of the Park Rangers program on the people involved, their families, caregivers, and their community. It also suggests ways to build on the program’s strengths to make it more effective and a model for other communities.
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Measuring and Mapping (Cluster 4)
- Enhancing and Linking Ethnocultural Organizations and Communities in Rural Manitoba: A Focus on Brandon and Steinbach (2011) Jill Bucklaschuk and Monika Sormova (CL4-13-MB) | Final Report (pdf)
- This project is part of a larger research initiative designed to understand the scope of immigration to
Brandon and southwestern Manitoba, with a particular focus on how communities can become more welcoming. Recommendations are provided.
- A Global Market in the Heart of Winnipeg: Measuring and Mapping the Social and Cultural Development of Food in the Central Market for Global Families (CL1-28-MB)
- Central Market is a multi-ethnic market open to all who enjoy shopping or selling in an open air market with culturally unique foods, listening to live and traditional music from various cultures, watching live entertainment, meeting new friends, and supporting the creation of safer, healthier neighbourhoods. The goal of this research project is to examine the design, operation, and maintenance of the Central Market and to document the experiences of the neighbourhood members and larger Winnipeg community.
- Growing Pains: Social Enterprise in Saskatoon’s Core Neighbourhoods (2008) Mitch Diamantopoulos and Isobel M. Findlay (CL4-04-SK) Final Report (pdf)
- Over the last decade, unique community economic development and social enterprise innovations in Saskatoon’s core neighbourhoods have provided some compelling new directions and possibilities for building stronger, more inclusive, and more prosperous communities. Although many challenges, obstacles, and disappointments emerged in our dialogue on the community-led redevelopment of the Core, these conversations also tell a story of compelling achievements and of promising opportunities to build on new foundations.
- Initiatives, pratiques et appuis au développement économique communautaire: la participation de l’économie sociale dans la construction des capacities des communautés francophones: Nord de l’Ontario, Manitoba et Saskatchewan (Community Economic Development Initiatives, Practices and Supports: How the Social Economy Contributes to Francophone Communities in Northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan) (CL4-01-NO)
- Our goal is to report on the state of the social economy among Francophones in three provinces – Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan – as well as identify regional differences and similarities.
- Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Sustainable Social Economy Organizations in Rural, Southeast Saskatchewan: A Research Report (CL4-02-SK)
- This research study includes profiles of social economy organizations in the area including their history and goals, activities and practices, resources and governance.
- Mapping Health Disparity: The Role of the Social Economy in Duck Lake (CL1-26-SK)
- The goal of this project is to improve access to health services in the Duck Lake area and understand barriers and disparities between groups accessing health care within the Duck Lake school division boundary (town, rural municipality, and reserve). It will also explore the opportunities that the social economy can create for improving the quality of life of people living in this area.
- Mapping Social Capital in a Network of Community Development Organizations (2012) Jason Heit (CL4-05-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- In recent years, Southwest Saskatchewan has been the stage for initiatives and collaborations among business/economic development organizations, community service organizations, government and their agencies, and the private sector. This report is an outcome of the networks and relationships among and between these players and the communities they serve.
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Enterprises (CL4-09)
- This research will review social accounting literature for applicability to social enterprises and survey measurement methods. A toolkit of indicators and measurement scales will be developed.
- Models for Effective Credit Union Governance: Maintaining Community Connections Following a Merger (CL4-08)
- The objective of this research is to improve the capacity of the co-operative and credit union sectors to serve their members and to improve the relationship between the sector and government. Responses to the questionnaires will provide the sectors with information that demonstrates the size, scope, and role of co-operatives and credit unions in Ontario and identify constraints that Ontario co-ops face in completing their missions.
- Profile of Community Economic Development in Manitoba (CL4-16-MB)
- This research project will engage community economic development and social economy actors in Manitoba in identifying the range of activities that demonstrate community-based, integrated, and participatory approaches to building stronger and fairer local economies, reducing poverty and homelessness, and creating more sustainable communities.
- Sault Ste. Marie Labour and the Social Economy: A Case Study (CL4-18-NO)
- This study enhances the social economy discourse by examining trade unions, whose major contributions have been under-represented in research in English-speaking Canada.
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People with Disabilities
- Cypress Hills Abilities Centres, Inc.: Exploring Alternatives (2010) Maria Basualdo and Chipo Kangayi (CL1-16-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- Cypress Hills Ability Centres, Inc. (CHACI), a nonprofit organisation in Shaunavon, envisioned the need to expand the services it offers to persons with developmental disabilities, as well as to cater even further for the unmet needs of persons with one or multiple disabilities in Shaunavon and surrounding area. The goal was to identify and fill gap(s) in service rather than duplicate a service already operating successfully elsewhere. This report presents the detailed findings of the research along with recommendations, study limitations, and the identification of potential public policy implications.
- Empowerment through Co-operation: Disability Inclusion via Multistakeholder Co-operative Development (2011) Kama Soles (CL1-21) | Final Report (pdf)
- This report explores the potential of multi-stakeholder co-operatives to provide new opportunities for empowerment and community development for those in the disability community, helping them to overcome disadvantage and marginalization. The research will help shape policies needed to foster social inclusion to empower people with disabilities and build disability solidarity through co-operative development.
- Exploring Key Informants’ Experiences with Self-Directed Funding (2010) Nicola S. Chopin and Isobel M. Findlay (CL5-06-SK ) | Final Report (pdf)
- Self-Directed Funding (SDF) models provide public funds to individuals with intellectual disabilities to help them fulfill their unmet needs and allow them to reach their goals. With the principles of SDF in mind, this report seeks to examine the complexities, challenges, and strengths associated with SDF models.
- Lessons Learned on the Justice Trapline (CL5-18-SK)
- The purpose of this project will be to conduct research across Canada and other jurisdictions on the lessons learned about placing Aboriginal people awaiting trial on the trap lines. The study will focus on convicted people with disabilities, and convicted youth offenders. Lessons learned from other places will support efforts to develop a program that would suit the Northern Aboriginal people.
- A New Vision for Saskatchewan: Changing Lives and Systems Through Individualized Funding for People with Intellectual Disabilities (2008) Karen Lynch and Isobel M. Findlay (CL1-15-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- Both IF and IFS help people with intellectual disabilities to choose and purchase the supports and services that they need to live the life they want to live. The resulting report outlines the different types of
IF and IFS programming available in different places around the world and makes recommendations in order to move the individualized funding agenda forward in Saskatchewan.
- South Bay Park Rangers Employment Project For Persons Living with a Disability: A Case Study in Individual Empowerment and Community Interdependence (2009) Isobel M. Findlay, Julia Bidonde, Maria Basualdo, and Alyssa McMurtry (CL5-15-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- This case study tells the story of the South Bay Park Rangers employment program for people with disabilities in the Northern Saskatchewan Village of Île-à-la-Crosse. This report discusses the situation in Canada for people with disabilities, issues facing Aboriginal people with disabilities, and particular issues in the North. The report aims to help people understand the impacts of the Park Rangers program on the people involved, their families, caregivers, and their community. It also suggests ways to build on the program’s strengths to make it more effective and a model for other communities.
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Policy (Cluster 5)
- Adult Education and the Social Economy: Re-thinking the Communitarian Pedagogy of Watson Thomson (2010) Michael Chartier (CL5-11) | Final Report (pdf)
- In 1944, Watson Thomson, a Scottish-born educator, organized and directed a Saskatchewan-wide adult education division. The program attempted to facilitate the formation of a network of co-operative enterprises aimed at the cultural, social and economic development of the Canadian Prairies. Perhaps the reclamation of Thomson’s educational framework can provide effective methodological consideration for contemporary adult education.
- Algoma Central Railway: Wilderness Tourism by Rail (2008) (CL5-03-NO) | website | Opportunity Study prepared for the CAPT Project by Malone Given Parsons Ltd (pdf)
- The Coalition for Algoma Passenger Trains (CAPT) is a regionally-based group of individuals, businesses, and other interests who recognize the significant social, economic, employment, cultural, historical, and environmental value of Algoma’s Wilderness Passenger and Tour Trains. This analysis of the market potential for the Algoma Central Railway’s passenger trains as infrastructure for a wilderness tourism rail corridor has resulted in several recommendations.
- Anishinaabek Communities of the Boreal and the Impacts of Roads: Paving the way Towards a Social Economy? (CL5-12)
- This research project will involve looking at long-term changes to land use by members of 2-3 Anishinaabek communities of the boreal forest of eastern Manitoba and Northwest Ontario, especially as it pertains to the access to the community by year-round roads, or lack thereof. The outcomes will be used to further critique and evaluate stated governmental policies in this region, with an eye on cultural continuity and long-term health and social well-being of the communities with whom research shall be conducted.
- Building a Federal Policy Framework and Program in Support of Community Economic Development (2011) Kristen Bernas and Brendan Reimer (CL5-27-MB) | Final Report (pdf)
- This report provides an overview and analysis of the Province of Manitoba’s CED Policy Framework and Neighbourhoods Alive! program. The report concludes by recommending, based on the Manitoba experience, how a CED Policy Framework and accompanying Neighbourhood Revitalization Program might be developed and implemented at the federal government level.
- Community Conversations about the Good Food Junction Co-operative (2012) Emily Hurd (CL5-20-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- The primary goal of this project was to provide CHEP, the Good Food Junction Co-operative board, and the Station 20 West Development Corporation board of directors with insight on where Core community members were shopping and present and to ascertain the likelihood of them making the switch to the Good Food Junction Co-operative grocery store.
- Culture, Creativity, and the Arts: Achieving Community Resilience and Sustainability Through the Arts in Sault Ste. Marie (2009) Jude Ortiz and Gail Broad (CL5-01-NO) | Final Report (pdf)
- This research values the socio-economic impact of the arts in Sault Ste. Marie and makes recommendations as to how more economic activity might be generated through strategic development of the arts, providing the City with a competitive advantage in attracting new businesses, retaining skilled labour and investment and providing wide-spread community benefits.
- Cypress Hills Abilities Centres, Inc.: Exploring Alternatives (2010) Maria Basualdo and Chipo Kangayi (CL1-16-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- Cypress Hills Ability Centres, Inc. (CHACI), a nonprofit organisation in Shaunavon, envisioned the need to expand the services it offers to persons with developmental disabilities, as well as to cater even further for the unmet needs of persons with one or multiple disabilities in Shaunavon and surrounding area. The goal was to identify and fill gap(s) in service rather than duplicate a service already operating successfully elsewhere. This report presents the detailed findings of the research along with recommendations, study limitations, and the identification of potential public policy implications.
- Exploring Key Informants’ Experiences with Self-Directed Funding (2010) Nicola S. Chopin and Isobel M. Findlay (CL5-06-SK ) | Final Report (pdf)
- Self-Directed Funding (SDF) models provide public funds to individuals with intellectual disabilities to help them fulfill their unmet needs and allow them to reach their goals. With the principles of SDF in mind, this report seeks to examine the complexities, challenges, and strengths associated with SDF models.
- Exploring Social Entrepreneurship in Saskatchewan (CL5-16-SK)
- In recent years the field of social entrepreneurship has gained increased attention from researchers, practitioners, and governments as a potential solution to many of society’s most pressing issues. This study aims to uncover new insights on social entrepreneurship in Saskatchewan. This research will identify how key informants view social entrepreneurship.
- Factors Affecting the Decisions of International Students and their Spouses to Settle in Saskatchewan/Canada (CL5-17-SK)
- The purpose of this research is to examine the views of graduating and recently graduated international students on adequacy of information and support for international students and factors affecting their decision to stay or not stay in Saskatchewan and/or Canada. Recommendation will be made on ways that the social economy and university sectors could improve employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for graduating, or recently graduated, international students and their spouses, and ways that the Saskatchewan provincial immigration officials can improve communication with international students and their spouses who are already living in Saskatchewan to ensure that they are aware of the policies and the services available to them if they are interested in staying in the province.
- Globalization, Social Innovation and Worker Co-operatives: A Comparative Analysis of Co-operative Development in Québec and Saskatchewan from 1980 to 2010 (CL5-09)
- This study examines the policy framework for the development of worker co-ops in Canada.
- The Importance of Policy for Community Economic Development: A Case Study of the Manitoba Context (2009) Brendan Reimer, Dan Simpson, Jesse Hajer, and John Loxley (CL5-04-MB)| Final Report (pdf) | Policy Position Paper (2007): Government Policies towards Community Economic Development and the Social Economy in Quebec and Manitoba by John Loxley and Dan Simpson (English pdf) (French pdf)
- This paper analyses how public policy, specifically government policy, affects the success and possibilities for CED to take place, using the province of Manitoba as a case study.
- Investing in the Successful Reintegration of Aboriginal Peoples Returning from Incarceration in Federal, Provincial, and Youth Institutions (CL1-19-SK)
- This study provides a literature review and environmental scan of existing programs and support for those returning from incarceration in federal, provincial, and youth institutions. The research intends to recommend initiatives and new programs and services to fill gaps.
- Ken MacDougall: The Enjoyment of Form (CL5-24-NO)
- This project resulted in a documentary that explores the contributions of local artist Ken McDougall, who brought together a community of artists, community activists, businesses and local institutions to celebrate the contribution of art to building a shared Northern identity.
- Lessons Learned on the Justice Trapline (CL5-18-SK)
- The purpose of this project will be to conduct research across Canada and other jurisdictions on the lessons learned about placing Aboriginal people awaiting trial on the trap lines. The study will focus on convicted people with disabilities, and convicted youth offenders. Lessons learned from other places will support efforts to develop a program that would suit the Northern Aboriginal people.
- Mining and the Social Economy in Baker Lake, Nunavut (2011) Warren Bernauer (CL5-22) | Final Report (pdf)
- This research assesses the relevance of the social economy to Baker Lake residents and the role that mining plays in the contemporary social economy of the community. Recommendations are made for resource development in the area based on the impact of mining on the residents.
- Municipal Government Support of the Social Economy Sector (2010) Jenny Kain, Emma Sharkey, and Robyn Webb (CL5-13)| | Final Report (pdf)
- This research explores ways in which local governments support community economic development (CED) and social economy (SE) activities. It aims to identify the roles that local governments play in promoting the CED and SE sector and to highlight innovative examples of this support. The research focused on local governments in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northern Ontario.
- A New Vision for Saskatchewan: Changing Lives and Systems Through Individualized Funding for People with Intellectual Disabilities (2008) Karen Lynch and Isobel M. Findlay (CL1-15-SK) Final Report (pdf)
- Both IF and IFS help people with intellectual disabilities to choose and purchase the supports and services that they need to live the life they want to live. The resulting report outlines the different types of
IF and IFS programming available in different places around the world.
- Re-engaging Citizens: Co-operatives as Public Policy Instruments for Democratic Renewal (CL5-10)
- This study examines the potential of co-operatives as public policy instruments within the social economy to promote socio-economic and political engagement in the face of globalizing trends that entrench inequalities and weaken local autonomy.
- Self Directed Funding: An Evaluation of Existing Self-Managed Contracts in Saskatchewan (CL5-19-SK)
- This research is designed to understand the impact of SDF on recipients (self-advocates or persons with intellectual disabilities), their families, relevant community members (caregivers, supporters, and other community members), and representatives of government bodies at the provincial level.
- Social Economy Leadership: Lessons in Organizational Entrepreneurship and Government Partnership (CL5-08)
- This research investigates what distinguishes sustainable from unsustainable policies, studies important inputs and institutions in social economy policy sustainability, examines how social economy groups challenge policy barriers and change them (as well as fail to change them), and investigates how tax policy enables social economy development and how alternative tax policy options might foster social economy development.
- Social Economy Public Policy Survey (CL5-07)
- This project will result in an inventory of the social economy policies of the Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan node of the Canadian Social Economy Project.
- South Bay Park Rangers Employment Project For Persons Living with a Disability: A Case Study in Individual Empowerment and Community Interdependence (2009) Isobel M. Findlay, Julia Bidonde, Maria Basualdo, and Alyssa McMurtry (CL5-15-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- This case study tells the story of the South Bay Park Rangers employment program for people with disabilities in the Northern Saskatchewan Village of Île-à-la-Crosse. This report discusses the situation in Canada for people with disabilities, issues facing Aboriginal people with disabilities, and particular issues in the North. The report aims to help people understand the impacts of the Park Rangers program on the people involved, their families, caregivers, and their community. It also suggests ways to build on the program’s strengths to make it more effective and a model for other communities.
- Understanding and Promoting Effective Partnerships for CED: A Case Study of SEED Winnipeg’s Partnerships (2011) Gaelene Askeland and Kirit Patel (CL3-06-MB) | Final Report (pdf)
- The results of this research report may be helpful to a variety of organizations that are considering entering into a partnership or assessing the partnerships they currently have. This research shows that success results from good planning, appropriate due diligence prior to engaging in partnerships, making good choices in partners, and putting in the effort and resources required to make the relationships work well.
- Urban Aboriginal Strategy Funding Database (2008) Karen Lynch, Cara Spence, and Isobel M. Findlay (CL1-14-SK) Final Report (pdf)
- The data collected during this study informs the amount of funding and granting resources that are available for organizations who deliver programming for Aboriginal people living in Saskatoon. The funding database has the potential to become an important tool for community-based organizations and policy makers to direct change in Saskatoon.
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Social Enterprises
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Social Enterprise Development (Cluster 1)
- Urban Aboriginal Strategy Funding Database (2008) Karen Lynch, Cara Spence, and Isobel M. Findlay (CL1-14-SK) Final Report (pdf)
- The data collected during this study informs the amount of funding and granting resources that are available for organizations who deliver programming for Aboriginal people living in Saskatoon. The funding database has the potential to become an important tool for community-based organizations and policy makers to direct change in Saskatoon.
- Community-Based Regional Food Distribution Initiatives: A Cross-Case Analysis (2012) Colin Ray Anderson and Stéphane Marc McLachlan (CL1-24-MB) |Final Report (pdf)
- Community-based food distribution initiatives are difficult yet rewarding. In this study we explored the strategies used by CRFIs in their efforts to upscale both the social and economic impact of localized alternative food networks. The research involved interviews, video documentation, site visits and four comparative case studies.
- Community Research Hub: A Case Study in Social Economy (CL1-11-MB)
- This research will determine whether basic community research skills can be supplied as a sustainable enterprise, eventually providing services beyond the boundaries of the inner-city.
- Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): Putting the “Culture” Back into Agriculture (2008) Miranda Mayhew, Cecilia Fernandez, and Lee-Ann Chevrette (CL1-07-NO) | Final Report (pdf)
- Along with describing the CSA philosophy, the resulting handbook describes how to set up a CSA group and suggests tips for making the group a success. It includes a checklist, and a brief case study of the Just Picked CSA.
- Co-operative Marketing Options for Organic Agriculture (2009) Jason Heit and Michael Gertler (CL1-22) Final Report (pdf)
- The resulting report profiles and analyzes some of the co-operative marketing enterprises that organic field crop producers in Saskatchewan have developed over the past thirty years. It discusses potential enterprise models for producer groups wanting to develop co-operative or producer-owned firms for marketing organic field crops. The report also provides recommendations for organic producers wanting to develop new or existing co-operative marketing enterprises.
- Cypress Hills Abilities Centres, Inc.: Exploring Alternatives (2010) Maria Basualdo and Chipo Kangayi (CL1-16-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- Cypress Hills Ability Centres, Inc. (CHACI), a nonprofit organisation in Shaunavon, envisioned the need to expand the services it offers to persons with developmental disabilities, as well as to cater even further for the unmet needs of persons with one or multiple disabilities in Shaunavon and surrounding area. The goal was to identify and fill gap(s) in service rather than duplicate a service already operating successfully elsewhere. This report presents the detailed findings of the research along with recommendations, study limitations, and the identification of potential public policy implications.
- Evaluation of Saskatoon Urban Aboriginal Strategy (2008) Cara Spence and Isobel M. Findlay (CL1-23-SK) | Final Report (pdf)
- In consideration of the UAS mandate to identify local needs of Aboriginal people and to develop innovative ways to address these needs, this research evaluates whether the UAS project was managed and delivered as it was designed; in turn, meeting the needs of the people it was intended to serve.
- Garden River First Nation Performance of Hiawatha (CL1-04-NO)
- This project provided youth with training in writing, acting, and producing community arts events and developed youth knowledge of Anishinaabe history and mythology.
- A Global Market in the Heart of Winnipeg: Measuring and Mapping the Social and Cultural Development of Food in the Central Market for Global Families (CL1-28-MB)
- Central Market is a multi-ethnic market open to all who enjoy shopping or selling in an open air market with culturally unique foods, listening to live and traditional music from various cultures, watching live entertainment, meeting new friends, and supporting the creation of safer, healthier neighbourhoods. The goal of this research project is to examine the design, operation, and maintenance of the Central Market and to document the experiences of the neighbourhood members and larger Winnipeg community.
- Harvest Moon Society Marketing Cooperative: Building Social Capital through an Alternative Food Economy (CL1-12-MB)
- This advocacy research study will employ participatory action research methods that will at once give voice to producers, benefit the community, and contribute to the theoretical literature on the linkages between the social economy and risk and adaptation in rural communities.
- Indigenous Women’s Identity and Work in Canada and United States, 1624-2006 (CL1-08-NO)
- This project raises and celebrates the profiles of indigenous women involved in community economic and business development.
- Investing in the Successful Reintegration of Aboriginal Peoples Returning from Incarceration in Federal, Provincial, and Youth Institutions (CL1-19-SK)
- This study provides a literature review and environmental scan of existing programs and support for those returning from incarceration in federal, provincial, and youth institutions. The research intends to recommend initiatives and new programs and services to fill gaps.
- Knowing Traditional Territory: An Inter-Generational Dialogue for Community Research (CL1-10-NO)
- In the spirit of oral tradition, an audio documentary will be produced by community youth and others who will interview elders, adults, and their peers concerning the importance of traditional territory for economic and social well-being.
- Labour Market Study: A Community Based Research Report (CL1-30-NO)
- This project will inform and assist the North Shore Tribal Council and local employment agencies to meet the employment and training needs of the First Nations communities they serve.
- The Management of Co-operatives: Developing a Postsecondary Course (2011) Leezann Freed-Lobchuk, Vera Goussaert, Michal Benarroch, Monica Juarez Adler (CL1-27-MB) | Final Report (pdf)
- This research presents a course outline, syllabus, and reading package for a course in the Management of Co-operatives for the University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Business and Economics. The course was offered for the first time at the University of Winnipeg in January 2011.
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Women
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Youth
Research Units and Clusters
